Now you can finally download Trillian for Mac multi-IM chat client and chat on Windows Live, Yahoo!, MySpaceIM, AIM, Google, ICQ, Jabber, Skype, IRC, and manage your Email, Facebook, and Twitter all together.
Trillian is a popular multi-IM client that lets you connect to multiple IM and social networks at the same time, managing contacts and [...]
The last time we introduced you to a 49 port USB hub, we were very much amazed that this giant USB port mothership would entertainment all the USB devices you own or perhaps more.
But, we ourselves did not have enough gadgets to throng the board all at once.
A strangely similar gadget has now surfaced from [...]
iPad Kick Stand. I guess that explains everything, So do I still need to shower any more descriptions? No. Yes?
Okay, ignoring the fumble cacophony that’s running through my head now, let me introduce you to the latest iPod accessory from Scosche Industries.
It’s the Scosche iPad Kick Stand made up of shatterproof polycarbonate and rubber hybrid [...]
Wednesday was an interesting day, with two very interesting announcements happening at the same time, one in the consumer space, one in the enterprise space.
I’m talking obviously about the Apple event to announce the iPad and the Oracle-Sun strategy announcement.
It’s well-known that Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison have been friends for many years, and there [...]
In a gracious T-mobile gesture, T-mobile is entertaining blackberry trackball replacements for its Blackberry users who are facing issues with trackball operation on their Blackberry handsets.
In order to avail the replacement of a faulty blackberry trackball, you must be a T-Mobile subscriber and must be owning Blackberry Pearl 8100, Blackberry Pearl 8120 or Blackberry Curve [...]
With the its latest record revenue outcome, Microsoft is nothing but celebrating success after its operating system sales did wonders. Yes, things from Windows arena did maximum contribution to get it a $19 billion dollar revenue.
Most of the revenue was generated by Windows 7 sales which make it the “fastest selling operating system” in the [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 29, 2010 Will Apple's iPad save the news industry By Robert Niles 2 comments Archive Link Will Apple's new iPad help the news industry Sure . Any new device that encourages people to read and watch more information will help publishers . With a larger screen than Apple's iPod Touch and iPhone , and far better display than we've seen from the Kindle or other e-book readers to date , people moving to the iPad from those devices should be expected to increase their screen time , since they'll be using a more aesthetically pleasing . device But can the iPad save the newspaper industry What features in the new device might help financially struggling newsrooms encourage more people to pay for news delivered online Slow down , folks . First , if you haven't watch this years-old clip from Fox's old Mad TV sketch comedy show , please do now . It's best not to place any industry's hopes
No, it’s not a new reality show, it’s real life.
Blogging saw a busy week to round out the first month of the new decade. Between the announcement of Apple’s “truly magical and revolutionary product,” the first State of the Union address by President Barack Obama, and Pope Benedict XVI’s plea for priests to embrace [...]
Griffin Technology, which has been producing quality accessories for various smartphones and music player brands, has very recently announced its latest set of accessories (clothing) for “the newest Apple creation”.
These accessories include an iPad leather case known as Elan passport, which opens like a book and uses flips to close the case. It has a [...]
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The launch of Apple iPad was perhaps the most awaited launch of the decade, (if we aren’t exaggerating) that killed the clouds of hype which shadowed us for long waiting months.
Now that the Apple iPad is officially unveiled, we’d like to know your opinion or a brief Apple iPad review [...]As most of us were busy listening to what President Obama had to say about the past and the coming year, there were others who were busy hacking into House sites to make insulting remarks against the president.
This isn’t the first time this is happening. More than 15 sites were hacked last [...]
So the Apple tablet is here and its called the Apple iPad. Here are some most common questions and FAQ about the Apple iPad which would update readers about the common specs and features of the Apple iPad.
Apple iPad FAQ
1. What are the common uses of the Apple iPad?
Web browsing, reading and sending email, view [...]It’s wrong to compare a Gadget which was launched at a crazy press event by Steve Jobs with another gadget that was spotted at a parking lot. Sorry! But that’s how this one goes.
Michael Arrington, spotted the DELL Mini 5, at the World Economic Forum in Davos and none other than Michael [...]Last time Mobile Heist offered a flat 50% discount on all of its applications available on store. The most recent play was of the Android apps discounts which lasted only for a day, the 17th Dec’ 09.
In an interesting way, Blackberry app discount or Mobile Heist is offering some of the most popular and best [...]
The Apple Tablet is here and its officially called the Apple iPad. Steve Jobs is demoing the new Apple iPad right now live and you can follow the Engadget live blog to get all the updates as they come through.
Apple iPad Tablet
“SO all of us use laptops and smartphones… the question has arisen; is [...]
The advertising industry has accepted a new standard icon called the Power-I or the little “i” – which you will spot on most online ads soon, and is a new step towards better online privacy standards.
Spot the white “i” on the blue background in the sample ad.
The NYT reports that most major companies running online [...]
Last week my imac (home computer), that my wife uses to run our little lunchbox company begin having some serious issues. Slow access times, constant rebooting and as of yesterday a complete inability to boot. Just a lovely grey screen of solitude much like the image above, until it refused to even show that [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 26, 2010 Build a better journalism career by shifting your focus from writing stories to creating assets By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link We're now taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp at the University of Southern California . I hope that OJR readers will apply for the camp , which will bring 20 journalists to Los Angeles for a week in May for intensive instruction and discussion about starting and growing an online news business . To encourage you to apply I'll be sharing on OJR for the next few weeks some of the topics I'll be discussing in greater depth at the . camp Many of these concepts will reduce to changes in the mindset that journalists bring to the practice of our craft . As journalists , we should understand the power of language . Simply changing some of our vocabulary can result in a profound shift in our practice of journalism , a
Tomorrow is going to be a challenge trying to figure out who’s getting my attention. At noon Larry is going to be revealing the strategy for the Sun acquisition here, and Steve will be releasing his new world saving device the Jesus tablet. I’m sure Larry’s 5 hour presentation tomorrow is going to be riveting, [...]
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As with last week, the geo news has been hot and heavy again this week, but before I get to the tidbits I’ve found interesting, let’s talk about why geo matters or doesn’t.
Unlike social, you shouldn’t be guilted into geo. Not that you were guilted into joining [...]
Guest post by Daniel Offer.
Which are the best Facebook chat instant messengers? Since its launch in April 2008, Facebook Chat is rapidly gaining market share in the Instant Messaging market – most notably Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. Indeed, back in June 2009 Facebook announced that they were sending over 1 billion instant messages a day.
Without a [...]
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If you read here, you know I love data and data visualizations.
So, you won’t be surprised to hear this post from Hot Hardware immediately intrigued me: “TomTom’s IQ Routes Prove Americans Aren’t Speed Demons”.
Aside from the blatant advertising, the conclusions, initially published by Tele Atlas, TomTom’s map business unit, [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 22, 2010 Is anyone on staff actually reading the mobile version of your news website By Robert Niles 5 comments Archive Link I've long complained about online news publications that automatically redirect all requests from mobile devices to their mobile home page . The practice kills deep-linking online , which is especially frustrating when the deep link comes from the news organization's own Twitter feed . But today , I'd like to highlight another frustrating practice by some news organizations publishing incomplete articles to the mobile version of their websites or smartphone . apps I'm illustrating two examples here today , but I've encountered so many on my iPhone over the past several weeks that I often wonder if many news organizations employ anyone to actually read their mobile publications , or if they merely entrusted their mobile versions and apps to automated .
Wordpress, many BlogHerald reader’s blogging platform of choice, has rolled out a new service. It doesn’t make your blog load faster or guarantee you more traffic. What it does is much cooler. Much bigger. It makes a difference.
The WordPress Foundation has established as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the goal of [...]
Word leaked yesterday that the EU was set to approve the Oracle-Sun acquisition, and today, it’s official.
Justin announced that Larry Ellison will hold a live webcast on January 27 to unveil the corporate strategy for the combined companies. Here’s the official description:
Transforming the Way You Buy, Run, and Manage Your Business Systems
Find out how Oracle [...]
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Earlier in the week, I posted about Next Jump and their use of data and algorithms to target offers at consumers who are most likely to buy.
Their results are impressive, 60% click-through on offers with a phenomenal 11% rate converting browsers to buyers. Apparently, 5% click-through with [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 20, 2010 15 criteria for picking a content management system for an ad-driven hyperlocal news website By Dave Chase 9 comments Archive Link One of the biggest early decisions a hyperlocal site entrepreneur makes is what Content Management System CMS they will use . One can think about this similar to picking a spouse . You are going to live with the decision day and night for a long , long time . Also , similar to choosing a spouse , each person has different criteria . I will share the criteria I used for my hyperlocal site www.sunvalleyonline.com so that you can consider them and prioritize them based upon your needs . Think through these criteria or your spousal choice may leave you feeling like Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in The War of the Roses Before I get into that , I will share my experience and scenario which gives you some perspective on my situation . I'm a
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Wow, geo is a hot topic lately, with coverage, announcements and features dropping every day.
Here’s a summary of what I’ve seen lately that caught my interest:
Gowalla appears to be preparing an API.
MyTown has 500,000 users, even though no one talks about it.
Yelp is adding location checkins to [...]
iTasveer, one of my favorite online photo printing service has recently launched a wonderful facebook application called Mast Calendar. This application lets you create a personalized calendar with your photographs and lets you put nearly 20+ b’day events. Once you’ve chosen the photographs and events – you can either download a high resolution calendar [...]
So most of us bloggers are not rich and famous…yet. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get to enjoy the self-aggrandizing, masturbatory ritual known as the award show acceptance speech.
It’s actually not a total waste of time…
Writing an acceptance speech will help you take the time to reflect on who you should really thank. [...]
Ever heard of a company called Next Jump? Me neither until I read this piece in the New York Times (h/t TechCrunch) last week.
Next Jump had stayed stealth for 15 years, raising $45 million in venture money and hiring 225 people, all the while signing 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers.
Not too shabby.
It gets [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 15, 2010 Need help finding income for your start-up news website We have a boot camp for you By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link If you are thinking about starting your own online news website or blog or if you've already made that move , but wondering where the money will come from please consider applying for the second edition of our News Entrepreneur Boot . Camp That's right , we're doing the camp again . The Knight Digital Media Center , in cooperation with OJR and the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC's Marshall School of Business as well as the USC Annenberg School for Communication Journalism , will select a dozen or so journalists to travel to Los Angeles in mid-May for the camp . There , you will work together and in one-on-one consultation with camp faculty to hone plans for your project and its financial . success Lots of other journalism
I spent a couple of years working at FOX News where I had the opportunity to hone my headline copywriting skills.
My boss at the time would plead with us to read Reader’s Digest, claiming they had mastered the art of “catchy” headlines.
The way we digest our media has changed, but the tried and true methods [...]
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake (with over 100 aftershocks!) has rocked the western part of the island of Hispaniola, devastating Haiti in the process. Sitting here as a mere blogger in America, it’s easy to feel that there’s not much you can do. While it might not be as gratifying as saving lives, there [...]
Thanks to Reader, today I found this piece (h/t Slashdot and Lifehacker) by a freelance writer asking whether her aol.com email address was hopelessly square and dated.
I noticed this post initially because I can’t think of a single contact of mine with an aol.com address. I used to help a friend with AOL about five years [...]
There is no magic calculator that will tell you how much your blogging services are worth. We each have an interdependent relationship with money that is uniquely our own. The $7.50 you just earned for that 500-word blog post might be worth your time. Or not. During discussions with bloggers, I [...]
My wife coerced me into watching Julia & Julia last night. It’s not a movie I recommend, but there was a line that got me thinking. One of the characters states that you’re not a writer unless you’re published (implying print publication). As someone who has been published – and blogs regularly – [...]
Cue the jokes.
So, Chet (@oraclenerd) floated this notion, originally proposed in the NYT, and it’s completely true. Check the evidence: $25 million from Google and Microsoft to pump the firehose of tweets into search results, a full ecosystem built around the Twitter API, even an apps marketplace, Oneforty, built around the ecosystem.
Incidentally, Oneforty, the brainchild of [...]
I know I predicted that geo would be left at the altar 2010, but I think there’s huge potential in geo services.
Dissecting my prediction, I’m forecasting gang-busting growth for the “where-am-I” use case. Along those lines, I give you Photocheck.in (h/t TechCrunch), which hits two of my favorite things: geo and APIs.
In very simple terms, [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 6, 2010 Doing journalism in 2010 is an act of community organizing By Robert Niles 18 comments Archive Link Nothing frustrates me more than watching journalists who've lost their newsroom jobs entering the blogosphere . with no clue as to what they should be doing online . Too few emerging online journalists understand that the function of news publishing has changed in the Internet era . Simply reporting the news , however you might define that , is no longer enough , not when you are publishing in such a competitive environment . The journalists who succeed online are the ones who understand that they are no longer simply reporters . they've become community . organizers Before the holidays , I had lunch with a local journalist who is making the transition from a print staff job to online entrepreneur . He wanted to pick my brain for ideas on how to make the switch , and I was
Setting goals is easy. Being held accountable for them is another story. Last year I set some serious blogging objectives for myself. And while I am pleased with the results, I recognize that I could have performed even better. All I needed was a cheerleader.
No, not the pom-pom wielding, short-skirt wearing [...]
Nokia, Blackberry, HTC and who not tried to create the iPhone killer and they miserably failed. Some of the key reason for the failure are – 1) Under powered mobile OS. 2) Under powered Hardware. Many will argue about these two points however, I will be explaining these reasons in detail as you read further. [...]
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I noticed a comment came on Connect this week from a skeptic. Someone had posted this video of Seth Godin, and among the positive comments was one skeptic.
The skeptic correctly identified Seth’s bent toward consumer use cases and the general lack of enterprise use cases when [...]
Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account.
Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can permanently [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review December 30, 2009 An online journalist's 10 resolutions for 2010 By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link We've talked often on this site over the past 12 months about what online journalists and journalism entrepreneurs should be doing to both prepare themselves for the changes coming to our field , as well as to take advantage of the changes already here . Now , at year's end , let's remind ourselves of 10 things that we can do in 2010 to help keep journalism vital in our readers' lives . and keep our careers in journalism alive at the same . time 1. Make your website more mobile-friendly Everyone I've spoken with in the industry this year about this has reported the same thing : The percentage of readers accessing their websites on mobile devices is increasing . Significantly . I'm seeing high single-digit percentages on the sites I publish , up from the fraction-of-a-point share I
I’m quite amazed to see that how one of our post about YouTube not working has attracted quite a good amount of visitors on this blog. Anyway, I thought that I would also like to add that it was for a short amount of moment that YouTube didn’t work for me and I was really [...]
Join me and the rest of the Bitwire Media crew for too much fun this Saturday, December 19, 2009, for the annual Holiday Marathon from 6AM to 6PM PST.
Each year, the Bitwire Media team celebrate the holidays with a live podcast and video marathon, with interviews, stories, laughter, games, contests, and a lot of [...]
As I catch up with all the backlog of my life and work after a solid month on the road, I’m still stoked by my amazing time spent with Alan Dean Foster.
While preparing for my meeting, I found a fascinating quote by Alan Dean Foster in an interview with Science Fiction and Fantasy News. He [...]